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Source: Supplied. Haytham El Maayergi, executive vice president, Global Trade Bank, Afreximbank and Smangele Mandidi, acting managing director of CBZ Bank during the signing ceremony.

Afreximbank inks $80m deals with CBZ Bank

Source: © Ollivier Girad/CIFOR-ICRAF Fifty-eight ‘forgotten’ food crops in sub-Saharan Africa have been identified as able to provide healthy diets in a changing climate

Africa’s ‘forgotten’ foods research wins prestigious US Cozzarelli Prize

16 May 2024

Farmers work at a cocoa farm in Daloa, Ivory Coast, 3 October 2023. Reuters/Ange Aboa/File Photo

EU will not delay deforestation law, environment chief says on Ivory Coast visit

By Ange Aboa 8 Apr 2024

Left to Right: Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya Chairman Apollo Owuor welcomes newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer, Hosea Machuki to the association

Kenya's horticulture sector to undergo major changes as new standard comes into play

28 Jun 2017

EkoFarmer: High-tech turnkey solution for businesses who want to grow their own

EkoFarmer: High-tech turnkey solution for businesses who want to grow their own

28 Jun 2017

Time running out to enter the Standard Bank Top Women Awards

Time running out to enter the Standard Bank Top Women Awards

Topco Media 27 Jun 2017

Demonstration farms showcase agricultural techniques and technologies to improve crops. Flickr/Remi Nono-Womdim, FAO (Source: The Conversation)

Demonstration farms can help revolutionise African agriculture

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi 27 Jun 2017

Skills development in agriculture should be seen as an investment

27 Jun 2017

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Pursuing sustainable soil management to combat soil pollution

26 Jun 2017

Drought and jobless, hopeless youth, fertile grounds for extremism

Drought and jobless, hopeless youth, fertile grounds for extremism

26 Jun 2017

#YouthMonth: Entrepreneur has high hopes for castor oil producing company in Africa

#YouthMonth: Entrepreneur has high hopes for castor oil producing company in Africa

Cari Coetzee 22 Jun 2017

FAO distributes seeds and fertilisers to a million people in north-east Nigeria

22 Jun 2017

#YouthMonth: Making agriculture a viable career choice for the African youth

#YouthMonth: Making agriculture a viable career choice for the African youth

Howard Blight 21 Jun 2017

Africa could help feed the world - if its fertile land doesn't vanish

Younouss Youn 21 Jun 2017

IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga (right) welcomes the Nigerian Minister of Finance, the Hon. Kemi Adeosun (left) to IITA, Ibadan. Photo: O. Adebayo, IITA

Nigerian Minister of Finance encourages national roll out of youth agri programme

20 Jun 2017

BRICS countries have an important role to play in achieving SDGs

BRICS countries have an important role to play in achieving SDGs

20 Jun 2017

Climate imperils Ethiopia's coffee output: study

Climate imperils Ethiopia's coffee output: study

20 Jun 2017

Zambia hotels winning at sustainability with agricultural and entrepreneurship projects

Zambia hotels winning at sustainability with agricultural and entrepreneurship projects

20 Jun 2017

Technology, like this tea-picking machine in Kenya, can harness agriculture’s power to change lives. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya

Science has the power to boost farming in Africa. But a lot has to change

Frans Swanepoel 19 Jun 2017

Iwoelbern via - Locust swarm, Madagascar

Collaboration helps increase warning time for locust outbreaks by months

19 Jun 2017

Chad is the country most vulnerable to climate change - here's why

Chad is the country most vulnerable to climate change - here's why

Hakim Abdi 14 Jun 2017

L-R: Deputy Governor, Osun State, Titilayo Laoye-Tomori; Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola; and Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Dr Nteranya Sanginga at the commissioning of IITA Research and Training Farm in Ago Owu

New research station to empower Nigerian farmers in modern agriculture

14 Jun 2017

Zimbabwe bans corn imports after bumper crop: media

Zimbabwe bans corn imports after bumper crop: media

14 Jun 2017

Three South African startups advance to Seedstars national finals

Three South African startups advance to Seedstars national finals

13 Jun 2017

President of the Republic of Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba, announces the creation of 20 marine protected areas during his speech at the headquarters of the United Nations

Gabon creates network of marine protected areas

13 Jun 2017

Leo-setä via - Mesembryanthemum plant can revive within a short period of time after a drought

Jill Farrant on breeding drought-resistant crops

12 Jun 2017

Kate HoltAusAID via

Disrupted agriculture, high food prices deepens food insecurity in Africa

12 Jun 2017

Antoshananarivo via

AfDB explores investment strategies to tilt markets in favour of African farmers

9 Jun 2017

Aquaculture in sub-Saharan Africa: small successes, bigger prospects?

Aquaculture in sub-Saharan Africa: small successes, bigger prospects?

John Bolton 8 Jun 2017

Antoshananarivo via

Taking agriculture to the next level

Tanimola Oyewole 7 Jun 2017

Blockchain seen as tool in food safety

Blockchain seen as tool in food safety

6 Jun 2017

Kate HoltAusAID via

Clues and solutions to Kenya's puzzling food price crisis

Timothy Njagi Njeru 2 Jun 2017

Sustainable forestry: Striking the right balance for investors and the man on the street

Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais 2 Jun 2017

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Left to Right: Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya Chairman Apollo Owuor welcomes newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer, Hosea Machuki to the association

Kenya's horticulture sector to undergo major changes as new standard comes into play

28 Jun 2017

EkoFarmer: High-tech turnkey solution for businesses who want to grow their own

EkoFarmer: High-tech turnkey solution for businesses who want to grow their own

28 Jun 2017

Time running out to enter the Standard Bank Top Women Awards

Time running out to enter the Standard Bank Top Women Awards

Topco Media 27 Jun 2017

Demonstration farms showcase agricultural techniques and technologies to improve crops. Flickr/Remi Nono-Womdim, FAO (Source: The Conversation)

Demonstration farms can help revolutionise African agriculture

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi 27 Jun 2017

Skills development in agriculture should be seen as an investment

27 Jun 2017

7raysmarketing via

Pursuing sustainable soil management to combat soil pollution

26 Jun 2017

Drought and jobless, hopeless youth, fertile grounds for extremism

Drought and jobless, hopeless youth, fertile grounds for extremism

26 Jun 2017

#YouthMonth: Entrepreneur has high hopes for castor oil producing company in Africa

#YouthMonth: Entrepreneur has high hopes for castor oil producing company in Africa

Cari Coetzee 22 Jun 2017

FAO distributes seeds and fertilisers to a million people in north-east Nigeria

22 Jun 2017

#YouthMonth: Making agriculture a viable career choice for the African youth

#YouthMonth: Making agriculture a viable career choice for the African youth

Howard Blight 21 Jun 2017

Africa could help feed the world - if its fertile land doesn't vanish

Younouss Youn 21 Jun 2017

IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga (right) welcomes the Nigerian Minister of Finance, the Hon. Kemi Adeosun (left) to IITA, Ibadan. Photo: O. Adebayo, IITA

Nigerian Minister of Finance encourages national roll out of youth agri programme

20 Jun 2017

BRICS countries have an important role to play in achieving SDGs

BRICS countries have an important role to play in achieving SDGs

20 Jun 2017

Climate imperils Ethiopia's coffee output: study

Climate imperils Ethiopia's coffee output: study

20 Jun 2017

Zambia hotels winning at sustainability with agricultural and entrepreneurship projects

Zambia hotels winning at sustainability with agricultural and entrepreneurship projects

20 Jun 2017

Technology, like this tea-picking machine in Kenya, can harness agriculture’s power to change lives. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya

Science has the power to boost farming in Africa. But a lot has to change

Frans Swanepoel 19 Jun 2017

Iwoelbern via - Locust swarm, Madagascar

Collaboration helps increase warning time for locust outbreaks by months

19 Jun 2017

Chad is the country most vulnerable to climate change - here's why

Chad is the country most vulnerable to climate change - here's why

Hakim Abdi 14 Jun 2017

L-R: Deputy Governor, Osun State, Titilayo Laoye-Tomori; Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola; and Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Dr Nteranya Sanginga at the commissioning of IITA Research and Training Farm in Ago Owu

New research station to empower Nigerian farmers in modern agriculture

14 Jun 2017

Zimbabwe bans corn imports after bumper crop: media

Zimbabwe bans corn imports after bumper crop: media

14 Jun 2017

Three South African startups advance to Seedstars national finals

Three South African startups advance to Seedstars national finals

13 Jun 2017

President of the Republic of Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba, announces the creation of 20 marine protected areas during his speech at the headquarters of the United Nations

Gabon creates network of marine protected areas

13 Jun 2017

Leo-setä via - Mesembryanthemum plant can revive within a short period of time after a drought

Jill Farrant on breeding drought-resistant crops

12 Jun 2017

Kate HoltAusAID via

Disrupted agriculture, high food prices deepens food insecurity in Africa

12 Jun 2017

Antoshananarivo via

AfDB explores investment strategies to tilt markets in favour of African farmers

9 Jun 2017

Aquaculture in sub-Saharan Africa: small successes, bigger prospects?

Aquaculture in sub-Saharan Africa: small successes, bigger prospects?

John Bolton 8 Jun 2017

Antoshananarivo via

Taking agriculture to the next level

Tanimola Oyewole 7 Jun 2017

Blockchain seen as tool in food safety

Blockchain seen as tool in food safety

6 Jun 2017

Kate HoltAusAID via

Clues and solutions to Kenya's puzzling food price crisis

Timothy Njagi Njeru 2 Jun 2017

Africa feeling the heat of climate change

Dan Shepard 2 Jun 2017

Sustainable forestry: Striking the right balance for investors and the man on the street

Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais 2 Jun 2017

Digitised loan payments a boost for smallholder farmers in Kenya

Digitised loan payments a boost for smallholder farmers in Kenya

1 Jun 2017

Put you in Youth Month

Put you in Youth Month

Bizcommunity.com 1 Jun 2017

Africa: Land of milk and beef?

31 May 2017

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Africa must re-adopt its orphan crops in the face of a changing environment

Ethel Phiri, Palesa Natasha Mothapo 31 May 2017

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FAO calls for sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems

31 May 2017

Harnessing informal trade can boost African livelihoods

Harnessing informal trade can boost African livelihoods

29 May 2017

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Highly contagious disease can decimate tilapia populations

29 May 2017

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#AfricaMonth: Quality agricultural education essential to increase productivity in Africa

Howard Blight 29 May 2017

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#AfricaMonth: Sustainable food production requires digitisation of entire agri value chain

26 May 2017